This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on clothing needs of individuals is the third in a set of four modules on consumer education relating to textiles and clothing. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see…

Developed for the home economics teacher of mainstreamed visually impaired students, this guide provides clothing instruction lesson plans for the junior high level. First, teacher guidelines are given, including characteristics of the visually impaired, orienting such students to the classroom, orienting class members to the visually impaired,…

This teaching unit, Introduction to Clothing Design, is one in a series of curriculum guides developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking 5th and 6th grade elementary classroom experiences with the world of work. These ten clothing design…

Intended to be used both as a guide for general program direction and as an individual evaluation and training tool this rehabilitation training guide includes materials and evaluation devices for use with mentally and/or physically handicapped clients on basic, intermediate and advanced living center levels. The eight independent living skill…

Designed to provide a knowledge of skills required to alter and repair individual clothing, textile, canvas, and webbed items, the materials include teaching guides, student workbooks, and texts. One of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian…

This guide for teaching consumer education for a coeducational class in home economics at the high school level is organized to capitalize on student interests. The course is for one semester, but more material than needed is provided. Overall course objectives are stated, and suggested course titles are listed. Eleven teaching units are…

Presented is the PARC (Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens) Plan which resulted from a 3-month survey of Pennsylvania's institutional system and which was designed to improve living conditions and programs of state schools and hospitals serving the mentally retarded. Detailed are specific recommendations for the achievement of annual…

As part of a series of guides designed for instruction of American Indian children and youth, this resource guide constitutes a pictorial essay on life of the Apache child from 1880 to the early 20th century. Each of the 12 photographs is accompanied by an historical narrative which describes one or more cultural aspects of Apache childhood.…

Designed for junior or senior high school students with academic, socio-economic, or other handicaps, the Coordinated Vocational-Academic Education (CVAE) Clothing Services curriculum guide is also useful in other vocational education programs. Information is presented in three sections. Section one is an overview for teacher preparation;…

The guide is one of a series developed in a pilot project to integrate career education concepts with traditional subject matter and topics in elementary grades K-7 and in special education. Developed by teachers in the Radford, Virginia, schools, the units make use of resource persons from outside the school, occupational information,…

To determine what adjustments the rural family will be making in the next 15 years, this study, a part of Project '80, examines past trends and future projections for the Michigan rural family. The first section on rural family living gives rural family characteristics which include information on transportation, communications, clothing, food,…

This study in Knox County, Tennessee, was done to determine how those attending Extension clothing construction workshops differed from others; which recommended clothing instruction practices were being used; and factors influencing respondents to adopt or reject practices. Forty-five participants and a random sample of 45 nonparticipants were…

This teacher's guide is one of a series of publications focusing on the occupational preparation of persons with special education needs. The material was developed and tested by cooperating teachers over a period of three years. Task analysis information is presented using occupational descriptions from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles,…

The program planning guide was developed as a special project to help teachers in presenting a 1-year consumer and homemaking education curriculum at the seventh or eighth grade level. The units are presented under four headings: Personal Relationships, Personal Environment, Personal Development, and Personal Health. The units can be taught in any…

The goal of the project was to validate, refine, and develop plans for implementation of a performance-based challenge test in the cognitive and psychomotor aspects of basic clothing construction skills that could be utilized for grades 7-14. An advisory board and a jury panel representing the three instructional levels provided assistance in…